My man @dmonin I heard from someone that the very reason why you decided to make this game is because you've concluded that modding Underrail is too much a pain in the arse? If that's the case, can I assume you're developing this game under heavy influence from Underrail? And am I wrong to assume the game will be more combat-centric like Underrail?

Yes, five years ago I asked Styg about some modding tools or SDK for Underrail. And yes, I really wanted to make some mod on Underrail.

And sure, Fallout 1/2 and Underrail inspired me. But I don't want to just copy them. I can't say that it will be more combat-centric game like Underrail. But combat gonna be no least part of the game. I'll try to create something my own based on scifi movies like The Thing, Screamers and Total Recall etc.

Any word on what stage of development you are at or when you expect to finish?

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Hard to say. Right now I'm working only on environment. I'm not a 3d artist so thats why it could take more time than I am expecting cause everything I do I do by my own. As for me I'm already late for 2-3 months. But most of game mechanics, I mean background code, almost done.

Also I still have issues with animation and organic cause it's hard to model and animate. But I will manage them.

In a game full of the text the main bottleneck is a font. The font should be readable and not complicate the player's life. But choosing a font is very difficult process, as is its color. Plus, here goes the screen resolution and everything is getting worse.

I was planning to order a font. Make it like the old pixel (no, there is no thing like this I guess, but they are very similar to pixels) IBM PC fonts. But, unfortunately, the designer couldn't get the job cause he is very busy. So, I decided to look for a free font that would pass under three main requirements:

1. Absolutely free, up to commercial use.
2. Cyrillic support and at least a couple of languages - French and German (maybe someone will translate it if I find money for this)
3. And my favorite test a set of symbols - "Illegal1 = O0" (zero, letter O, numeral one, and English l and cursive letter l (L)

And I found it. This is the Iosevka font. It's totally free and almost passes the point #3

I will not stop looking for the font of my dreams, but so far, the choice has been made. I hope you like the font. And even if not, it will cause less irritation than Comic Sans.

One more thing. The font size on the screenshots is the minimum that can be set in the game, further - you can only make it larger. The font size changing option will be for sure.

I think it looks pretty great so far. There could be a little bit of tweaking with the font or the color of font and background but overall this is good in my opinion. Maybe something a slight bit bolder but not too much? Just to make it slightly easier on the eyes? I don't know.